CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
1. INTRODUCTION: WHY SURFACE ARCHITECTURE? I
2. FRAMING CONTAINMENT 9
FRAMING THE FACE 9
MONUMENTAL VOLUMES 1-4
REPRESENTATION AND PRODUCTION 20
MINIMAL SURFACES 23
THE FACTORY 28
TOTAL CONTAINMENT 28
CHICAGO FRAMES 29
3.WINDOW/WALL 39
DE-VIGNOLIZATION 41
VIEWING THE LANDSCAPE 46
OPACITY AND TRANSPARENCY 51
THE OBLIOUE 54
THEPAINTED VIEW 58
THE DEPTH OF THE WINDOW WALL 58
TAKING STOCK 61
BORDER ADJUSTMENTS 62
VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL 63
MISALIGNMENTS 64
CLADDING AS CLOTHING 68
WINDOWS AND/AS WALLS 71
4 THE APPEARANCE OF COVERING 79
ATECTONIC FABRICATIONS'. SLIDING SURFACES 5O
MASKING AND REVEALING 87
SYMBOLIC SURFACES 91
THE IMPRESSED FACADE: TATTOO 95
SURFACE APPLIQUE 98
IMPRESSIONS 101
PLANARITY AND SURFACE IMPRESSIONS 104
AESTHETICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AGE 110
IDEALITY OF THE CONSTRUCTED FACT 113
ARCHITECTURE FOR INDUSTRY 116
FACTORY-MADE 125
5 ADJUSTING STANDARDS 131
THE LIGHT OF INDUSTRY 131
MODERN APPEARANCES AND PRACTICALITY 135
PREFABRICATION AND PERSONALITY 143
ARCHITECTURE EN SERIE 148
FABRICATION PROCESSES 157
"FOR MANY YEARS I WORE THE LEATHERAPRON" 160
6. PREMADE REMADE 165
OPEN AND CLOSED SYSTEMS OF
CONSTRUCTION 165
BRUTAL FACTS OF BUILDING 168
FACTS OF BUILDING AND OF LIFE 171
INVENTION AND LIMITED MEANS 178
CHANCE CONSTRUCTION 185
AS FOUND 187
FORMLESSNESS 194
7. TECHNIQUE AND APPEARANCE : THE TASK OF THE PRESENT 199
DISTRACTION 201
MODERN BUILDING AND HISTORICAL MEMORY 204
REPRESENTATION AND NON R E PR ES ENTATI ON 209
BUILDING IMAGES 214
POSTCRIPT 215
TECHNIQUE 226
APPROPRIATION 241
NOTES 243
INDEX 257